Students protest after suicide on NITK campus

Students protested inside the National Institute of Technology (Karnataka) (NITK) campus in Surathkal on Saturday evening after a third year Mechanical engineering student jumped from the window of the sixth floor of a building on campus and committed suicide.

As per the complaint lodged by Narendranath S, HOD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NITK Surathkal, third year student Anand Pathak jumped from the window of the Mechanical Department building located within the NITK college campus around 2.30 pm. Anand Pathak (20) was the son of Nanda Kishore Pathak, a resident of Latur in Maharashtra. The police said investigation is under progress.

There were allegations that as a professor had not allowed him to appear for the examination due to attendance shortage, despite having 73 per cent attendance, the student committed suicide.

NITK Students’ Council President Pratyush Giri told Bangalore Mirror the students’ council had called for a peaceful protest. “He had not expressed anything to anyone and when it happened, it came as a shock. We do not want to come into any conclusion before a fair inquiry is conducted,” he said.